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I love Team 10, so filler or no filler, it was great to see them. Even Ino did something important. The anime has been accused before of being Sasuke fanboys, but he looked like an amateur compared to Shikamaru in this episode. Ino didn't even fangirl him once and was more into Shika and yelling at Choji. That got old quick though. I prefer Ino not to be another Sakura with the Tsundere act.

Shikamaru is the Zhuge Liang of Naruto. Romance of the Three Kingdom fans and Chinese history buffs should know that name. Naruto is Liu Bei. Or better yet, his son he dropped on his head making him stupid, Liu Shan.

Kishi should have made Shikamaru evil. The little loli was right. Shikamaru was getting off on messing with that guy. He'd be better than Kabuto.

I love Team 10, so filler or no filler, it was great to see them. Even Ino did something important. The anime has been accused before of being Sasuke fanboys, but he looked like an amateur compared to Shikamaru in this episode. Ino didn't even fangirl him once and was more into Shika and yelling at Choji. That got old quick though. I prefer Ino not to be another Sakura with the Tsundere act.

This episode was pretty good. Ino was useful, it had a good message, the characters you think would've taken up the spotlight again didn't, and the plan they used was pretty clever. Anyone notice how in the beginning, Ino was using her mind transfer jutsu on a PIG? Maybe an inside joke.

Just one more episode and we'll be back to canon. Can't wait. I was hoping we'd get a Danzou filler arc with him just generally being a jerk with his new power during this downtime instead of these flashbacks, but I'm sure we'll see enough of that coming up no matter what.

I love Team 10, so filler or no filler, it was great to see them. Even Ino did something important. The anime has been accused before of being Sasuke fanboys, but he looked like an amateur compared to Shikamaru in this episode. Ino didn't even fangirl him once and was more into Shika and yelling at Choji. That got old quick though. I prefer Ino not to be another Sakura with the Tsundere act.

Oh well. Next week is a Sasuke episode. It might tie into canon.

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Originally Posted by Kyero Fox

god damn.. when are the fillers gonna end!?

The first post of this thread was enough to answer your question... are you for real?

Whining about the length of the fillers is pretty pointless too. You could just check the upcoming episodes thread or ask the question in the Q&A thread. Or you could take some initiative and google it.